At the San Diego Comic Con Microsoft revealed that their upcoming game creator Project Spark, similar to but far more advanced than Kodu on the Xbox 360 and the better known Little Big Planet franchise on the PS3, will be released on the Xbox One, Xbox 360 and Windows 8 PCs via Xbox LIVE for FREE! They also announced that you can sign up for the Project Spark Beta Program at http://joinprojectspark.com.

Minority Report-style Kinect controls have been confirmed for the Xbox One version, as you can see in the trailer above, along with voice commands but it’s not clear whether the Xbox 360 and/or Windows 8 PC versions support Kinect too. Also, it hasn’t been revealed whether the Kinect controls are just used for the game creation tools or whether you can actually make Kinect-controlled games too, but I hope that’s possible as that would be really cool!

As well as Kinect it also supports Xbox SmartGlass which was briefly demonstrated, along with some voice commands, during Microsoft’s E3 briefing:

You can find out more info about Project Spark in the video interview from Gamespot below:

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